DOGS

also huge

Yeah, have always liked the looks of your family sheps, gb.

Would bro down with that newfy. It'd be like having a small domesticated bear round the house.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1016/1286957573_671bbcd91a_o.jpg

motherfucker @ 6 months

no way

way

http://lossmaignewfoundlands.co.uk/images/family_144.jpg

OMG!!!

He's great.

<3 newfies too

awwwwwww they love each other

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5249/5268490339_e4f9489916_b.jpg

aaaaand here he is on thanksgiving

awwww

Would bro down with that newfy. It'd be like having a small domesticated bear round the house.

when i was 13 or so we stayed in vancouver w/family friends with a newfy puppy, and it kind of was!

I want a tiny house bear.

newfie = house bear
dane = house horse

I like dogs that galumph. I'd also like to be able to put lamps and ashtrays and things on tables, though. With a Great Dane, do you pretty much have to give up on things on tables?

food things (unless you are there to keep watch): yes
other things: mostly OK, his tail is not the destructor it could be, but there are infrequent collisions

keeping him off the couch/bed is a pain in the ass, esp since he grew up with a dedicated twin mattress to chill on that we don't have room for these days

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LTWqGVqO5uQ/TNhXBVUY6SI/AAAAAAAAADc/7oh0wwS1VJ8/s1600/Afghan_Hound.jpg

This dog is such a loser. I bet it likes Vampire Weekend.

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Sarah_Jessica_Parker%20-%201%20-%20The_Family_Stone.jpg

my old dogs basically just hung out outside all day, tbh. my parents were really good about training them not to beg or get crazy food ambitions, so the only time they ever sniped food was if you really made it easy/tempting.

the only time it ever seemed like an issue was when they'd get all riled up and start jamming through the house, back and forth from the kitchen to the porch, because my mom had a china cabinet and i swear i could hear things breaking whenever they'd go by it. clancy, on several occasions, also beelined right for it if you made the mistake of putting a toy in front.

NB---we only had one dog at once, if that wasn't clear

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00226/16-foonew-ashdown_226884t.jpg

also tully, the new one, is really dumb, esp compared to the old dog (who figured out how to open the back door). plus i honestly think he might have some bizarro brain damage. he refuses, REFUSES, to use stairs (really), and is occasionally terrified about passing through doorways. i actually turned up a possible neurological explanation for this while studying for school once but forgot it :-/

he's a sweetheart, though

Most favouritest dog breed

Corgi
Pug
Basset hound
Pittie bull
Staffy bull
French bulldog

Someone needs to post the Buzzfeed Top 30 Dogs of the Internet here

On yr computer, planning ILX takeover:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/354111117_1d2127ab94.jpg

The bulldog gets my vote for his PATCHWORK REPRESENTATION here:

http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&Sec=21&Sub=87&PID=4836

Muji, all my hats, they are yours.

Also write in for SHIBA INU!

I am now about to spam you with baby wolves! ONE MOMENT PLEASE

baby wolves!!! yes.

lurcher or weimaraner, I think

the noble samoyed imo

http://i.imgur.com/nZWuv.png

they're fun to brush, afterwards you have what amounts to a trashbag full of teddy bear stuffing

I have a shameful amt of dog photos favourited on flickr
https://img.skitch.com/20101217-a31ag2sxbdqcdbk4p84nr84tw.jpg

https://img.skitch.com/20101217-nut9uatq269s9n9u9qe5tn2idq.jpg

https://img.skitch.com/20101217-8a2dqst2bjf43bmir6aine9bmf.jpg

and of course this lil guy
https://img.skitch.com/20101217-g3dqj8ya6ax1f84jx59fepd89n.jpg

https://img.skitch.com/20101217-8rxurm8yhfqgcx1aucht17shge.jpg

forgot about the samoyed

here is my favorite one ever:

http://cdn-www.dailypuppy.com/media/dogs/anonymous/tintin_samoyed03.jpg_w450.jpg

his name is tin tin. he says hi to you.

sad sweater pug yes!

That is the indiest pug ever.

Oh man I can't work ilx these days. Anyway, please watch this video (you'll have to sit through a few seconds of cute Japanese popstress but I promise you a PUPPY that is worth it!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkY2CShbIog

And here are some shiba inu pups:
http://www.littlewolf.com/3redpupsMarch06.jpg

Would... it be wrong of me to sign up to puppy forums on ravelry when I have no dog? I would just be signing up for the pictures? But, heck, knitters know how to take good photos!

My favourite pugs are still the Bloomsbury Pugs - they walk around Bloomsbury in pairs with their owners and they wear necklaces! I have deduced they are from somewhere east of Liverpool Street as ONCE I SAW THEM ON THE TUBE and it was very exciting!

Wait - what's this about necklace pugs? I used to live not far from there and never saw any pugs in necklaces. Not fair.

Here is a place I would like to visit:
http://www.dog-cafe.jp/

Their slogan is "with dog, with eat, with drink, with relax, with enjoy"!

Of course it is!

Just look at all the happy dogs!

http://ameblo.jp/mfukuoka/image-10537262685-10545868954.html

xpost: ENBB! They get taken on walks in the general Bloomsbury area! I work around there and have enjoyed spotting them for years. I have even given one a surreptitious cuddle when the black one was tied outside Boots on Tottenham Court Road one day. It was a highlight of my year!

I work in Holborn and have never seen these Bloomsbury pugs. Do they venture that far South?

x-post awwww. I am jealous! I would like to see these sharply accessorized pooches. My pug would let you cuddle him. He likes that sort of thing. He doesn't have a necklace but he does have an awesome dog tag that says "wiggle butt".

I don't think so - I've only really seem them in the triangle between Torrington Place, Busaba on Store Street and the Fitzrovia Tavern on Goodge Street.

Here is a photo I took of Sidney standing on a stump and looking particularly silly. She is GRATE. Her powers of eating EVERYTHING are something us humans could really aspire to, in your face that woman from 'love food hate waste' who was on ready steady cook earlier.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robot_starry/4827962972/

I like Sidney.

And this is when Sidney met a pug!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robot_starry/4827351835/

xpost: oh dear this is what people with babies are like isn't it... *sigh*

awwww and yes, it totally is but don't worry I'm exactly the same

I grew up with toy poodles -- my grandparents had a pedigreed female, Jody, who they later bred, and they kept two of the litter and named them Mork and Mindy. (LOL 70s.) When I was 10, we got a toy poodle of our own, Cherie, who lived about 11 years. So I still totally rate toy poodles.

When I was in college, I got a pug, who I eventually had to give to my grandfather. Love love love love pugs. But I'm still voting for poodles.

superpitching - I've already posted about 100 too many pics of this guy on ILX but here's B being caught eating something he shouldn't be: http://i53.tinypic.com/4ku0dl.jpg

Obviously voting for poodles.

My inlaws have a mastiff, a german shepherd and a Pyrenees cross...I heart big dogs!

Before the mastiff and the Pyrenees they had St Bernard siblings, a brother and sister. They are beautiful-tempered dogs. The sister, Mina, was mad as a march hare. She acted like was a puppy even though she was the size of a shetland pony. She'd try to walk under the coffee table, or walk up to the couch and sit on your lap...she crawled into the drivers seat of the car once and got her head stuck in the steering wheel.
Best story is the day she met face to face with a goat. She decided that she would play with it so she starts barking and jumping around and the goat rears back and headbutts her full in the snout. Poor girl, she looked like she was going to cry. Like "Ow WTF dude!!!"

So many beautiful dogs. I like mine handsome with short fur, I voted Foxhound:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/English_Foxhound_portrait.jpg

love the dogs with dreads
komondor aka mop dog

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Komondor_Westminster_Dog_Show_crop.jpg/548px-Komondor_Westminster_Dog_Show_crop.jpg

Bergamasco

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Ortensia_di_Valle_Scrivia.jpg/728px-Ortensia_di_Valle_Scrivia.jpg

Dudes, we have a 17 year old Yorkie who is awesome.

I will not hear of this categorical besmirching of Yorkies.

Forreals.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.